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Y Bham Enuol: the early years and BAJARAKA
He was born in 1913 in the village beside the mission at Ban Me Thuot, went through three schools the French and the missionaries had built, and became an agricultural official in the provinces he would later petition about. In 1958 he put his name to letters asking President Diem, three foreign embassies and the United Nations to look at what w...
Y Bham Enuol
A Rhade official from Buon Ale-A who led both of our movements, spent more than five years in the prisons of the government he was petitioning, put our own name for ourselves before an international conference, was held under guard by his own allies for the last six years of his life, and walked out of the French Embassy in Phnom Penh on April 2...
Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
For thirteen years a French administrator named Léopold Sabatier governed Darlac on the principle that the land belonged to the Rhade and that outsiders should be kept off it. He set up a court that judged by Rhade law, a school that taught in Rhade, and on January 1, 1926, an oath-taking assembly of the chiefs. The same year he was removed, and...
The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the country around Buôn Ma Thuột. They speak a Chamic language, related to Cham and more distantly to Malay; they trace descent through women; and they gave the Dega movement many of its leaders, from Y Bham Enuol onward. This is one of a series of pages on the peoples of the highlands.
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